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Opinion Pieces
Hedge funds face clip
Hedge funds enjoyed record inflows in 2011 as new assets from US pension funds poured into their coffers. But it was also a horrible year for their performance and investors put a lot of pressure on them for better terms.
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NewsSeek refuge in families as investment skies darken in 2012, pension funds say
Consequences of euro-zone break up "impossible to oversee and hedge" says Dutch fund.
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NewsThe 'New Style' of working longer
Society has been overrun by the reality of ageing and must adopt a new approach.
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NewsThe impact of Solvency II on pension costs and efficiency
Authorities' complacency on the decline of DB takes some explaining, argues Con Keating.
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NewsThe worst-case scenario: How to deal with low growth and high inflation
What to do with low growth and high inflation? The Phillips Curve just might hold the answer.
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NewsDurban: The pathway to where and when?
Carlos Joly sifts through the good and the bad at the recent UN talks on climate change.
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NewsEconomic scenarios for strategic risk management
Ortec Finance's Hens Steehouwer and Guus Boender take a closer look at SRM.
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NewsSingle currency, single everything
When you have a single currency, everything must be single, argues Marinos Gialeli.
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NewsA comedy of errors: The European Commission's stance on Solvency II
Con Keating on the folly of applying Solvency II rules to defined benefit pension funds.
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NewsStandard & Poor's makes the case for new banking criteria
S&P's Jayan Dhru explains the reasoning behind the agency's new thinking.
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NewsI polder, you polder
Just how effective has the Dutch 'polder' approach to pensions reform been?
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NewsWhat the revised IORP Directive should focus on
The original Directive was inadvisable for a number of reasons, says Liam Kennedy.
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NewsOne Europe: The advent of a new federalist system
Europe's own latent weakness has pushed it toward a more federal system, says Harry Smorenberg.
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Opinion Pieces
Long-Term Matters: Executive Pay
Why should investment professionals care about the ‘#Occupy’ protests? The majority of the public – ie, our customers – share some of the protesters’ views, even if they are not on the streets. One potent driver is the huge growth in income inequality over recent decades. With this comes disgust with politicians for being the primary ‘enablers’.
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Opinion Pieces
Fiona Stewart, OECD
Fiona Stewart, principal administrator at the OECD, considers why many institutional investors have failed to live up to their long-term investment potential.
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Opinion Pieces
IORP under pressure
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority’s (EIOPA) call for advice on the subject of revisions to the EU’s 2003 IORP Directive on work-place-based pensions closes on 2 January 2012. It seeks advice on the extent to which the legislative framework should be similar to that for other financial institutions and products.
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Opinion Pieces
Investing for impact
“When traditional investors look at impact investing they sometimes think they have to sacrifice returns. Fortunately, there are many examples of impact investing that lead to both competitive returns and positive social impact. In fact, it can be a very competitive field of investing activities versus mainstream assets,” says Scott Budde, head of the global social and community investing department at TIAA-CREF. This is why TIAA-CREF, with $440bn (€319bn) assets, has been involved in impact investing since 2006, and socially responsible investing since the 1980s.
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NewsUnion spin on pension reform ignores big picture
Public sector pension reform is about the next generation, not about class, says David Davison.
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NewsMartin Steward: Why can't Germany sell its bonds?
In its worst auction of the euro era, Germany tries and fails to sell €6bn worth of Bunds.
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NewsSolvency II: Bernardino fights his corner
Pensions luminaries give new EIOPA chairman a less-than-warm welcome in Frankurt.
